The Red Shoes | 红鞋

A poor girl named Karen becomes obsessed with a pair of beautiful red shoes, leading her to vanit...

Sigmund Freud and Dreams | 西格蒙德·弗洛伊德与梦

This article explores Sigmund Freud's revolutionary theory of dreams and the unconscious mind. It...

For the Record | 记录在案

A widower struggles with the daily deluge of school paperwork for his five children. While review...

Uprooting the Willow Tree | 倒拔垂杨柳

Lu Zhishen, assigned to guard a vegetable garden after monastic misconduct, confronts and subdues...

Callisto | 卡利斯托

The myth of Callisto, a nymph transformed into a bear by the jealous Hera, and her eventual reuni...

Love of Life | 热爱生命

A man, abandoned and injured in the wilderness, endures extreme hunger, cold, and exhaustion in a...

The Crumbling Wall | 坍塌的墙

A rich man ignores identical warnings from his son and an old neighbor about his crumbling wall, ...

Lawyer's Trust | 律师的信任

A junior lawyer panics over forgetting to lock the safe, but his senior partner humorously reassu...

The Boy on the Bus | 公交车上的男孩

A conductor questions a mother and her son about the boy's age, receiving the same answer from bo...

Bianque's Medical Art | 扁鹊的医术

The famous physician Bianque explains to the King of Wei that his eldest brother, who prevents il...

The Fox Borrows the Tiger's Might | 狐假虎威

A clever fox, caught by a tiger, tricks it by claiming divine authority. By walking ahead of the ...

The King and the Rice | 国王与米粒

An Indian king promises a wise old man any prize for winning a chess game. The old man requests r...

The Three Craftsmen | 三位工匠

A story about three craftsmen, each insisting their own familiar material is best for city defens...

By the Almshouse Window | 济贫院窗前

An old maid gazes from an almshouse window at children playing on Copenhagen's historic rampart. ...

Clever Elsie | 聪明的艾尔西

A girl named Clever Elsie is married to Hans after her family and he are convinced by her absurd,...

Gong Yixiu and the Fish | 公仪休拒鱼

Gong Yixiu, a minister fond of fish, refused all gifted fish to avoid obligation and potential co...

Zhao Fu and the Cart | 造父驾马车

A father and son's frightened horse refuses to move. Zhao Fu, an expert handler, calms the horse ...

The Singing, Soaring Lark | 会唱歌、会飞翔的云雀

A father promises his youngest daughter a singing lark but must give her to a lion to obtain it. ...

Black Tulips | 黑郁金香

A story of hope and survival in post-war Netherlands. A tulip grower's prized bulbs, hidden by hi...

Courtroom Confession | 法庭证言

A prosecuting attorney's attempt to establish rapport with an elderly witness backfires spectacul...